After several months of development, the NWCA College Scorebook will make its launch during the 2008-09 college wrestling season and provide fans all the stats and results they crave.
"The unique thing about this scorebook is how user-friendly it is," said NWCA Executive Director Mike Moyer. "There is no limit to the amount of statistical and result information via this tool."
The NWCA College Scorebook is designed to formalize and streamline the tedious nature of keeping current wrestling statistics.
"In the past, we had our member institutions keeping their own stats, but they would be doing it in 20 different ways," said Moyer. "What this does is create a uniform way of statistical reporting and results publishing and put our sport in line with how other college sports publish them."
The NWCA scorebook will be available, for free, to all college wrestling programs across the country. It is fully integrated with the NWCA's Optimal Performance Calculator and also features a live component where fans can follow match results live as they happen with teams using the scorebook online.
"Teams using the NWCA College Scorebook just make a few mouse-clicks to log their results, track statistics and directly e-mail results to their sports information offices, local newspapers and national media," said NWCA President Jim Beichner. "As a coach, this innovation will make the process of producing results and accurate statistics that much easier. It's going to be something that will change how our sport is tracked."
The public page includes the team's schedule, links to all competition dates, links to individual wrestler record and statistics pages and a team overview of statistics.
"Every other sport has software that can produce post-match results and statistics," said Beichner. "We now have that ability. It will help my athletics staff, it will help me as a coach, it will help our managers, it will help the fans, and it will help the media. There isn't a group of people within the sport this will not benefit."
When in practice, the scorebook tracks every stat within the sport.
It also tracks team performances and, for the first time, creates an automated process for producing team and individual records. In the past, wrestling's conference standings were done by hand, often by a member of the media.
"This is just another step in helping make wrestling coverage and wrestling information easier to compile and easier to get access to," said Moyer. "There are a variety of formats the results and the live score stats can be downloaded."
"Newspapers, web sites, sports information offices – anyone -- can go right to the scorebook and as soon as the match is over, produce results that will be easy to publish," added Moyer.
The NWCA College Scorebook will encompass the NCAA's three divisions, the NAIA and the NJCAA. The California Community Colleges have been beta-testing the program during its fall season and it has been met with great acceptance and rave reviews.
"Wrestler reports, team reports, meet results, conference standings and live coverage. It's going to change the way information is distributed in our sport," said Beichner. "If there are 20 teams using it one night, you can see the scores as they happen for 20 teams."
"We're giving this to the sport," said Moyer. "I think the quality of the interface and the software would have been easy to sell, but the benefits of giving this to all our member schools far outweighs any financial gain. Our staff and programming people have created something incredibly functional to the computer expert and the computer novice."
"This will really change how things are reported, there's not a single drawback to our teams using the NWCA College Scorebook," he said.
The scorebook can be viewed at: http://www.intermatwrestle.com/nationalscorebook.html
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